echinus
noun
any sea urchin of the genus Echinus.
echini
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pluralof echinus.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In the same stone the claws of crabs, fragments of echini, and other signs of a neighbouring beach, are observed.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
But, if pearls and bright shells be rarely found there, surely waifs, better than echini and sting-rays, are to be gathered on the “shores of long ago.”
From Sword and Gown A Novel by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
Among the molluscs and zoophytes, I found in the meshes of the net several species of alcyonarians, echini, hammers, spurs, dials, cerites, and hyalleae.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
Superb specimens were secured,—large boulders crowded with colossal shells and perfectly preserved echini.
From Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence by Louis Agassiz
Those of starfishes have two movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section P and Q by Project Gutenberg
